13 Facts About Reeve Lindbergh

Reeve Lindbergh directed his family with a set of hard-and-fast rules.

Charles Reeve Lindbergh was an outspoken isolationist and critic of US military involvement against Nazi Germany.

Reeve Lindbergh has been spared much of the intrusion of fame in her personal life.

Reeve Lindbergh began writing children's books the day Jon died as an infant in 1985.

Reeve Lindbergh continued the animal theme in Benjamin's Barn about a young boy who discovers jungle and prehistoric creatures, pirate ships, and a princess in a big, red barn.

Reeve Lindbergh turned to an American folk hero in Johnny Appleseed: A Poem, retelling how John Chapman traveled from the East Coast to the Midwest, planting apple seeds for future generations.

An accomplished poet, Reeve Lindbergh uses rhyming couplets to describe how spring comes on in New England in North Country Spring.

Reeve Lindbergh discovered later in life that her father had three other families in Germany and Switzerland.

Reeve's brother Land Morrow Lindbergh has been considered a possible model for the central character in French writer-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince.

Reeve Lindbergh serves as a board member and honorary chairman of the Charles A and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation.

Reeve Lindbergh previously served as vice president and president of the foundation.

Reeve Lindbergh served as Chair of the Vermont Arts Council Board of Trustees Awards Committee from 2015 until she stepped down as trustee in the summer of 2021.

Reeve Lindbergh presented a live reading of her children's book, Nobody Owns the Sky, about Bessie Coleman, an early aviation pioneer, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, in December 2021.